Whip-socket



(No Model.) 1 I E--.W. SCOTT. Whip Socket- N 236,848. Patented Jan. 18,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERASTUS W. SCOTT, OF VVAUREGAN, CONNECTICUT.

WHIP-SOCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,848, dated January 18, 1881.

Application filed December 10, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ERASTUS W. Soorr, of Wauregan, of the county of Windham and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Whip Sockets or Holders for Application to Wheel-Carriage Dashers; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of .which-- a Figure 1 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 a top view, and Fig. 3 a vertical section, of a whip socket or holder constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. at is a perspective view of its rear section; Fig. 5, a front view of the front section; Fig. 6, a top view of the flanged and hooked annular cap, while Fig. 7 is a top view Fig. 8, a front view of the hooked annular bottom-piece, and Fig. 9 a detail.

My invention relates to the construction of a whip-holder, such as will enable its principal parts to be easily made of separate castings, and to possess means of readily coupling them together and fastening the holder to the dasher of a carriage. To this end I have composed a holder of four principal members or parts, described in the drawings as A, B, O, and D.

The first of the said parts, which is marked A, I term the rear section, it being trifurcated or having three prongs, a, b c, and an arched bearing, d, formed and arranged as shown in the drawings, and especially in Fig. 4 thereof, there being at the junction of the prongs a hole, 6, for reception of a pivot, f, extending from the flanged and hooked cap C. The middle prong is bent or arched at its middle, as shown at g, the arch terminating against an abutment or shoulder, h, extending inward from the arch, in manner as shown. The arch and abutment are to support an elastic jacket, cushion, or tube of india-rnbber, to encompass the arch and rest against the shoulder, such elastic cushion or tube 2 being to prevent abrasion of the whip-handle while it is in the holder, or while such handle may be in the act of being placed in or withdrawn from the holder. The middle prong is notched near its lower end, as shown at it, and'each of the other prongs terminates at its lower end in a hook, p.

The front section, B, is an open frame, as shown, having at its lower end a dovetailed foot, q, and at its upper part an arched bearing, 1', projecting up from a shoulder, s, all being as shown, a top View of the said section B being given in Fig. 9.

The bottom piece, D, is an annulus, having at its rear an arched bearing, t, and a curved arm or hook, at. It also has arranged in it, as shown, a notch or recess, 11, to receive the middle prong of the section A, in order to connect such prong to the said bottom piece, the part of the prong that is between the notches it being inserted in the recess '0. The bottom piece, D, also has holes to w in it to receive the hooks p 10 of the outer prongs of the section A. Furthermore, the said bottom piece, D, has a hooked and slotted projection, 00, extending down from it, and formed in manner as represented. The dovetailed foot q of the front section, B, is passed into the slot y of the projection, and laps on the projection, so as, with it, to connect the front section to the bottom piece.

The cap-piece C is an annulus, flanged as shown at z, and provided at its rear with the pivotal projection f and a bent arm or hook, a, all being as represented.

In order to secure the cap-piece C to the front and rear sections after the pivot f may have been inserted in the hole 0, a screw, 1), is passed down through the cap piece and screwed into the upper part of the front section, or into a nut, c, suitably arranged in the opening of the said front section.

To fasten the whip-holder so made to a carriage-dasher, the latter is to be inserted, at one edge of it, between the hooks a and u and the arched bearings 01 and t, after which the screw 1) is to be screwed so as to depress the cappiece and cause the dasher to be tightly grasped by the said hooks and bearings. The elastic tube 2 has its bore eccentric to its periphery, as shown, in order that it may be turned about and adjusted to fit to a whip. In some cases the tube may be slipped down to a lower position on the prong, in order to accommodate the whip-holder of a larger size.

I claim 1. The whip holder, substantially as de- 

